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Published in final edited form as: J Integr Bioinform. 2015 Sep 4;12(2):266. doi: 10.2390/biecoll-jib-2015-266

Table 3.

When a Compartment object instance does not specify a value for the attribute units, but does specify a value for spatialDimensions, a value for units is inherited from the enclosing Model instance according to the rules listed above. The left-hand column indicates the value of the compartment’s spatialDimensions attribute, and the middle column indicates the attribute on Model whose value should be used in that case. The right-hand column lists the kinds of units recommended for use in each case.

Value of attribute `spatialDimensions`	Attribute of Model used for inheriting the unit	Recommended candidate units
“ `3`”	`volumeUnits`	units of volume, or `dimensionless`
“ `2`”	`areaUnits`	units of area, or `dimensionless`
“ `1`”	`lengthUnits`	units of length, or `dimensionless`
other	no units inherited	no specific recommendations